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AWS – Amazon HealthLake announces enhanced analytics feature
Amazon HealthLake announces new analytics capabilities, making it easier for customers to query, visualize, and build machine learning models on their HealthLake data. With this launch, HealthLake transforms customer data into an analytics-ready format in AWS Lake Formation in near real-time. This removes the need for customers to execute complex data exports and data transformations. […]

AWS – AWS re:Post is accessible to users in five additional languages – Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French, Japanese, and Korean
AWS re:Post is a cloud knowledge service designed to help AWS customers remove technical roadblocks, accelerate innovation, and operate efficiently. re:Post has only supported English since the launch at re:Invent 2021. Today, re:Post has expanded the user experience to support five additional languages. Customers can now learn, design, build, and troubleshoot AWS technology by posting questions […]

AWS – AWS SAM CLI introduces Terraform support for AWS Lambda local testing and debugging
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces the preview of AWS Lambda local testing and debugging on Terraform. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you build, change, and […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus supports 200M active metrics per workspace
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports 200M active metrics per workspace. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation open source project for monitoring and alerting that is optimized for […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds support for high-fidelity color workloads
AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports RGB 10- and 12-bit 4:4:4 color spaces via AWS Cloud Digital Interface (AWS CDI) enabling workloads such as color grading, that require high-fidelity color at low latencies. The RGB 10- and 12-bit 4:4:4 color spaces are in addition to the currently supported option of YCbCr 10-bit 4:2:2. Read More for […]

AWS – Introducing Amazon HealthLake Imaging preview
Amazon HealthLake Imaging is a new HIPAA-eligible capability now in preview that enables healthcare providers and their software partners to easily store, access, and analyze medical images at petabyte scale. With HealthLake Imaging, healthcare providers and their software partners can run their medical imaging applications in the cloud to increase scale while also reducing infrastructure […]

AWS – Amazon RDS events now include attributes for filtering with Amazon SNS
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports the delivery of message attributes, which provide structured metadata about a message. RDS event attributes are separate from the message, but are sent with the message body. The message receiver can use this information to decide how to handle the message, enabling routing and filtering without having […]

GCP – Document AI for government makes it easier to process documents and deliver better constituent services
Every year, government agencies are responsible for distributing services and benefits that require processing billions of documents, images and forms. These documents are often expected to be manually transcribed into an electronic system error-free by a government employee to support time-sensitive tasks such as application intake, verification, enrollment, vendor management, and procurement. While agencies want […]

Azure – General availability: Per Rule Actions on regional Web Application Firewall
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall on Application Gateway now supports customizing actions per rule. This new functionality allows you greater control over how the Web Application Firewall handles incoming traffic. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: TLS 1.3 with Application Gateway
Start using the new policies with TLS 1.3 for your Azure Application Gateway to improve security and performance. Read More for the details.